A dog suffering from a snake bit is taken care of at the Koret Veterinary School.Imagine one dog asking another: “How’s your health insurance policy? Satisfied with your HMO?” Both are legitimate questions because people and animals suffer many of …

It may not sound kosher but Israeli researchers are using pigs to test an innovative technology they say will replace cosmetic breast surgery. But we’ll get back to that later. The MIM technique (Minimally Invasive Mastopexy), developed by the startup …

The LuboCollar protects the neck by restricting the movement of the head relative to the rest of the body and also maintains an open airway in a non-invasive, simple and quick manner.The most critical time for any trauma patient is …

The PeriBoost enlarges and expands the small blood vessels around the artery, ensuring that you receive a steady flow of blood to the lower extremities despite the plaque blockage.The best thing to do if you suffer peripheral arterial disease (PAD), …

One of the mummies discovered in South Korea. (Courtesy of Seoul National University)An Israeli scientist studying a 500 year old mummified Korean child stricken with hepatitis B may provide clues in combating the disease. Hepatitis B, killing approximately one million …

Michael Ovadia mulls the effects of a cinnamon stick: I had a hunch that this oil [described in the Bible], which was prepared with cinnamon and other spices, played a role in preventing the spread of infectious agents to people.For …

The I-Chip is a small disposable microarray that looks much like the chips used by the electronic industry, but contains biological molecules instead of circuitry.Dr. Eli Sahar, CEO of Immunarray, makes no bones about it. “Lung cancer is one of …

For Raffi Rembrand, necessity was definitely the mother of his invention. An Israeli engineer and father to a son with autism, Rembrand was well aware of the difficulties of raising a child with severe autism. He had devoured all the …

‘The patient’s immune system sees these new ‘angry’ cells as a great danger to the body, and rallies to the defense to eliminate the threat, releasing an array of inflammatory cytokines, in what is a bit like the fight or …

An Israeli medical team has succeeded for the first time in the world to remove eggs from pre-pubescent cancer patients – some as young as five – and bring them to maturity before freezing them, giving the girls a better …